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A small assembly line for the assembly of power steering pumps needs to be balanced. Precedence diagram is shown below.
The cycle time is determined to be 1.7 minutes. How would the line be balanced by choosing the assignable task having the longest task time first? Fill in the table below. If your answer is zero, enter "0". Round your answers to one decimal place.
Station | Tasks | Total Time | Idle Time |
1 | B,A,C,D | ||
2 | E,F | ||
3 | G,H,I | ||
Total |
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- An assembly line is to operate eight hours per day with a desired output of 240 units perday. The following table contains information on this product’s task times and precedencerelationships: Task Task Time (Seconds) Immediate Predecessor A 60 — B 80 A C 20 A D 50 A E 90…An assembly line is to operate eight hours per day with a desired output of 200 units per day. The following table contains information on this product’s task times and precedence relationships: TASK TASK TIME(SECONDS) IMMEDIATEPREDECESSOR A 60 — B 60 A C 50 A D 70 A E 30 B, C F 110 C, D G 70 E, F H 70 G b. What is the required workstation cycle time to meet the desired output rate? (Round your answer to the nearest whole number.) c. Balance this line using the longest task time. (Leave no cells blank - be certain to enter "0" wherever required.) d. What is the efficiency of your line balance, assuming it is running at the cycle time determined in part b? (Round your answer to 1 decimal place.)A manager wants to assign tasks to workstations as efficiently as possible and achieve an hourlyoutput of four units. The department uses a working time of 56 minutes per hour. Assign the tasksshown in the accompanying precedence diagram (times are in minutes) to workstations using thefollowing rules:a. In order of most following tasks. Tiebreaker: greatest positional weight.b. In order of greatest positional weight. Tiebreaker: most following tasks.c. What is the efficiency?
- The desired daily output for an assembly line is 540 units. This assembly line will operate 720 minutes per day. The following table contains information on this product's task times and precedence relationships: TASK TASK TIME(SECONDS) IMMEDIATEPREDECESSOR A 35 — B 25 A C 35 A D 55 B E 5 B F 15 C G 30 E-D H 5 F-G b. What is the workstation cycle time? c. Balance this line using the largest number of following tasks. Use the longest task time as a secondary criterion. (Leave no cells blank - be certain to enter "0" wherever required.)An assembly line is to operate eight hours per day with a desired output of 250 units per day. The following table contains information on this product’s task times and precedence relationships: TASK TASK TIME (SECONDS) IMMEDIATE PREDECESSOR A 50 — B 20 A C 25 A D 35 A E 60 B, C F 60 C, D G 50 E, F H 90 G What is the required workstation cycle time to meet the desired output rate? Note: Round your answer to the nearest whole number. Balance this line using the longest task time. Note: Leave no cells blank - be certain to enter "0" wherever required. What is the efficiency of your line balance, assuming it is running at the cycle time determined in part b? Note: Round your answer to 1 decimal place.A manufacturing company is designing an assembly lineto produce its main product. Th e line should be able to produce60 units per hour. Th e following data in Table 10-16 give thenecessary information. (a) Which task is the bottleneck?(b) Draw a precedence diagram for the above information.(c) Compute the cycle time with a desired output of 60 unitsper hour
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- A company needs to rebalance a product layout for producing new plastic license plates. They plan to use the assembly line six hours in order to meet projected demand of 2,160 license plates each day. The following table describes the tasks involved in the production of this product: Without regard to projected demand, what is the maximum possible cycle time for this assembly line? Task Time (secs) Immediate Predecessor a 3 none b 4 none c 5 a,b d 7 none e 9 c,dAn assembly plant for the Blood Pressure RX, a portable blood pressure device, has 400 minutes available daily in the plant for the device, and the average demand is 80 units per day. Final assembly requires 6 separate tasks. Information concerning these tasks is given in the following table. Task Performance Time (minutes) Task Must Follow Task Listed Below A 4 - B 1 - C 1 A, B D 3 C E 4 D F 2 E b) Given the demand, what is the cycle time for this operation? The cycle time for this operation is enter your response here minutes/unit (enter your response as a whole number). c) What is the theoretical minimum number of workstations? The theoretical minimum number of workstations is enter your response here stations (enter your response as a whole number and, if your unrounded answer includes decimal values,…Smart Manufacturing's production engineers are reviewing the layout of their assembly line for their leading product. The line will operate eight hours a day with a desired output of 240 units per day. The following table contains information about this product's task times and precedence relationships: TASK Task Time (seconds) Immediate Precedent A 60 -- B 80 A C 20 A D 50 A E 90 B,C F 30 C,D G 30 E, F H 60 G Determine: a) Network of activities (precedence diagram) b) Cycle time c) The required number of workstations d) Evaluate the solution by the appropriate line balance heuristic